Job Description

Your responsibilities

Are you passionate about engaging students in science and inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers? Are you an enthusiastic science educator who feels comfortable interacting with diverse audiences in the framework of an international laboratory? Are you excited to design, execute, and evaluate programmes and projects for the next generation of scientists? Are you excited by Open Science? Join the CERN Education team as a School and Student Projects Manager!

CERN has an opening for a Project Graduate in the Teacher & Student Programmes (TSP) Section in the Education, Communication and Outreach (ECO) group in the International Relations (IR) sector. Within the CERN Education team, several school and student programmes exist already, like the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition and the Hands-On Physics (HOP) project, a programme aiming at fostering physics teaching in middle schools. Other programmes, like the High-School Students Internship Programme have passed their pilot phase and are currently being evaluated to derive possible future formats. All activities of the team are supported by Physics Education Research (PER).

As the manager of school and students projects you will:

• Coordinate the Beamline for Schools competition as Programme Manager, which includes the overall organisation of the competition and the stay of the winning teams in close collaboration with the Technical Coordinator and the Support Scientists.
• Manage CERN’s contribution to the main phase of the HOP project implementing learnings from its pilot phase.
• Empirically evaluate past and present programmes for school students to actively contribute to the Physics Education Research within the team.
• Develop CERN’s future school student programmes.
• Contribute to the Open Science initiative at CERN.
• More information here: https://international-relations.web.cern.ch/eco/sections/teacher-student-programmes

Your profile

Skills

• Experience in physics education; experience in particle physics is an asset.
• Experience in communicating science to diverse audiences including young learners aged 5-19 years.
• Experience with enquiry-based learning approaches.
• Desire and ability to work in a team within a large international organisation.
• Fast learner capable of rapidly and effectively grasping new concepts.
• A working knowledge of English or French.
• Further details: https://international-relations.web.cern.ch/opportunities/2024//project-graduate-school_and_students_projects_manager

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Science education, STEM (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 5th of January 2025 at 23:59 (midnight) CET.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-February-2025

This position involves:

• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.
• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job reference: IR-ECO-TSP-2024-211-GRAP

Field of work: International Relations

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6212 and 6828 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

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